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The Finnish Court of Lifelong Condition was sentenced to life imprisonment for committing war crimes in eastern Ukraine in 2014.
The 38-year-old Voslav Torden, a senior member of the Russian right-wing Rusic, was found guilty of four charges in the Finnish capital of Helsinki on Friday, and he was justified by the fifth accusation.
The allegations concern ambushes and shootings held in the Ukraine region in Luhansk, which killed 22 Ukrainian soldiers and suffered four others. Torden denies allegations.
For the first time, the allegations were filed and heard in the Finnish court of charges of war crimes in Ukraine.
Torden, who was previously known as Jan Petrovsky, was the founder of Rusich, who acted in the eastern region of Donbass within the framework of the pro -Russian separatist who fought with Ukraine. Rusich is the band of Wagner.
It was claimed that on September 5, 2014, Torden led his people in the ambush of Ukrainian soldiers, pretending to be Ukrainian before setting fire to a truck and a car belonging to this unit.
Twenty -one Ukrainian troops were killed and five more were injured, the charges said.
The court in Helsinki found that there was insufficient evidence to conclude that Rusich was specifically responsible for the ambush because there were several other groups.
However, he found Torden guilty of all other points, including that Thorden was in charge of Rusich’s business, present during an ambush who killed at least one Ukrainian soldier and was injured by another.
He also found that his people removed the wounded soldier, “making a rusic symbol on his face.”
It was revealed that Thorden spread the “humiliation” of the soldier and posted in the social media that Rusich “would not give mercy”.
The panel of the three judges unanimously found him guilty of the last four accusations, writing that the most serious – the murder of the soldier – “comparable to the murder of his cruelty and cruelty.”
While the court found that there was insufficient evidence to find him guilty for the death of 21 other Ukrainian soldiers, he ordered him to pay compensation to the soldier’s family whose death he recognized.
Torden has consistently denied the allegations against him, Finland’s public TV and radio reports. He intends to appeal the conviction, reports the ILTA-SANOMAT newspaper.
Torden was arrested at Helsinki-Want Airport in July 2023 at the request of the government, which sought to extradite it.
This request was rejected by the Supreme Court of Finland on concern that he would not receive a fair trial in Ukraine – but he was still able to judge Helsinki because he was accused of crimes on international rights.
Finland’s public television company, Yle, reports that similar allegations were tested at the internal level related to actions in countries, including Rwanda and Iraq.
